Oct 3, 2026 · 38 min · 16 segments
*The Last Pumpkin on Briar Row (starts at 1:27)* \*\** Written by: Yanina Litt \*\** *Something Special for Halloween (starts at 10:13)* \*\** Written by: D.H. Parish and narrated by: JV…
It sits on the curb at the dead end, turned toward the woods with no candle inside and no face cut into it.
I used to think that was just one of those neighborhood rules people kept because grandparents kept it.
Then I spent my first October in the little blue rental at the corner, and I learned what the last pumpkin was for.
It was huge, too wide for one person to lift, and the color of a bruise under orange skin.
Someone had set it on a flattened bed of leaves with its pale stem aimed at my porch.
I carried the bag inside and left the pumpkin where it was because the note had not asked me to move it yet.
It had been slipped under my door, though I had been sitting ten feet away and heard nothing.
It sits on the curb at the dead end, turned toward the woods with no candle inside and no face cut into it.
I used to think that was just one of those neighborhood rules people kept because grandparents kept it.
Then I spent my first October in the little blue rental at the corner, and I learned what the last pumpkin was for.
It was huge, too wide for one person to lift, and the color of a bruise under orange skin.
Someone had set it on a flattened bed of leaves with its pale stem aimed at my porch.
I carried the bag inside and left the pumpkin where it was because the note had not asked me to move it yet.
It had been slipped under my door, though I had been sitting ten feet away and heard nothing.
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